Death in High Provence

A Cabinet Minister is not satisfied that the death of his brother and his French sister-in-law, in a car-crash, was accidental. He arranges for Littlejohn to visit France unofficially. In the remote upland village of St Marcellin Littlejohn is met by a conspiracy of embarrassed silence. Witnesses disappear, and it is evident that the profligate Marquis de St Marcellin, a friend of the dead couple, exercises a feudal control from the chateau. Nevertheless at the climax of Littlejohn’s inquiries a batch of old skeletons come tumbling out of the cupboard.